Mourners carry the body of Mohamed Amin, a Palestinian man who was killed after carrying out a stabbing attack on an Israeli soldier, during his funeral in the village of Beit Ula, near Hebron in the Israeli occupied West Bank. (AFP Photo)
GAZA, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Islamic Hamas movement and the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) in Gaza hailed on Monday the stabbing attack that killed an Israeli settler in northern West Bank.
"We welcome such successful heroic operations, so we wish safety for those who carried out it, and for all other men of resistance and leaders of revolution in the West Bank," said Hamas spokesman Abdel Latif al-Qanoua in an emailed press statement.
He said that the recent attacks and operations in the West Bank "are very much successful; the one in Nablus and the armed clashes in Jenin and today's stabbing of a settler in Salfit."
Meanwhile, the Islamic Jihad's armed wing, a-Quds (Jerusalem) Brigades said in a press statement that the stabbing operation "is a natural response to the crimes of the occupation (Israel) against the Palestinian people."
"The stabbing operation reiterates that the Palestinian armed resistance will never stop until kicking this enemy out of our occupied lands," said the statement of the group.
Israeli sources said earlier Monday that a 40-year-old settler was killed after he was stabbed by a knife at the entrance to the Israeli "Ariel" settlement near Salfit in northern West Bank.